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Kimberly Sheridan is currently an Assistant Professor of Education, with a joint appointment in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the College of Education and Human Development. She received her doctorate in Human Development and Psychology in June 2006 from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, under advisor Dr. Howard Gardner. She received her B.A. in Art from Kalamazoo College.
Dr. Sheridan’s research background is diverse: she has worked in functional neuro-imaging labs, done field research on the contemporary visual arts in East Africa, conducted observational and interview studies of high school visual arts classrooms, and used on-line surveys and interviews to study film fans who participate in discussion groups. Using these diverse methods and approaches, her research all focuses on the intersection of the arts and cognition.
Prior to coming to George Mason in Fall 2006, Harvard Project Zero has been her central research home, and she continues on research collaborations there. She is a Research Specialist for the Studio Thinking Project (funded by the John Paul Getty Trust, the Ahmanson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education) which studies teaching, learning and assessment in the visual arts, and on a project funded by the Wallace Foundation, The qualities of quality: Excellence in art education and how to achieve it. In addition to her research, Kim has been involved in professional development for teachers, she has taught courses at the Project Zero Summer Institute and numerous professional development workshops.
Kim has received a number of awards including a Fulbright research fellowship and a Spencer Foundation research training grant. She is a painter and lives in Reston, VA with her husband and son. She teaches courses in Art Education in the Art and Visual Technology Department of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and in Educational Psychology at the College of Education and Human Development. She is currently working towards developing a research center on learning in the arts at George Mason University.
Selected publications:
Sheridan, K. (in press). Reading, writing and watching: The informal education of film fans. To appear in J. Flood, D. Lapp, and S.B. Heath (Eds.) Handbook on Teaching Literacy through the Communicative, Visual and Performing Arts. (2nd ed.) Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ.
Hetland, L., Veenema, S., Palmer, P., Sheridan, K., & Winner, E. (in press) Studio thinking: The real benefits of visual arts education. Teachers College Press: New York.
Keinänen, M., Sheridan, K.* & Gardner, H. (2006). Opening up creativity: The lenses of axis and focus. In J. Kaufman and J. Baer (Eds. ) The Relationship Between Creativity, Knowledge, and Reason. Cambridge University Press: New York.
*First authorship is shared
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